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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

by Jonathan Eig

Published: 2014-10-13

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A Chicago Tribune 'Best Books of 2014' A Washington Post '50 Notable Works of Nonfiction & Best Science Books 2014' A Chicago Tribune 'Nonfiction Books to Gift 2014' A Slate 'Best Books 2014: Staff Picks' A Booklist '2014 Editor’s Choice' & 'Top 10 Science and Health Books of 2014' A St....

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Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson

by Lyndsay Faye

Published: 2009-12-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the gritty streets of nineteenth century London, the loyal and courageous Dr. Watson offers a tale unearthed after generations of lore: the harrowing story of Sherlock Holmes’s attempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper.As England’s greatest specialist in criminal detection, Sherlock Ho...

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Circus Girl & Other Stories

by Lois Ann Abraham

Published: 2014-07-14

Paperback: 248 pages

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Fiction. A little girl discovers the power of the creative impulse. A woman remembers her first confusing sexual encounter. An aging flower child travels to Mexico to save her daughter. A baby is born with blue feet. A man ponders his ex-wife's last word. Those who live in the pages of CIRCUS GIRL &...

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Inside (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Alix Ohlin

Published: 2013-03-26

Paperback: 272 pages

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Grace is an exceedingly competent and devoted therapist living in Montreal. When she stumbles across a man who has just failed to hang himself, her instinct to help kicks in immediately. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger a...

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Babylon and Other Stories

by Alix Ohlin

Published: 2006-07-25

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Following The Missing Person, her highly praised debut—“A seriously entertaining and probing novel,” wrote The Washington Post Book World—Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range.In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic l...

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Signs and Wonders (Vintage Contemporaries Original)

by Alix Ohlin

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us—connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves.

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Remedies for Hunger

by Anara Guard

Published: 2014-08-15

Paperback: 148 pages

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This collection of short stories focuses on moments in life when something turns, a choice is made, a promise kept or broken. With vivid and precise details, these quiet tales introduce you to characters whose inner lives are both troubled and eloquent. You smell the permeating odors in a rundown Chicago...

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Lady of Ashes (Lady of Ashes Mysteries)

by Christine Trent

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 432 pages

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In 1861 London, Violet Morgan is struggling to establish a good reputation for the undertaking business that her husband has largely abandoned. She provides comfort for the grieving, advises them on funeral fashion and etiquette, and arranges funerals. Unbeknownst to his wife, Graham, who has nursed...

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The Promise

by Ann Weisgarber

Published: 2014-04-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree, shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and longlisted for the Orange Prize.1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing desti...

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Crooked River: A Novel

by Valerie Geary

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 336 pages

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With the inventiveness and emotional power of Promise Not to Tell, The Death of Bees, and After Her, a powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness.He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again.Still grieving...